In war there is no substitute for victory. – Douglas MacArthur
Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II. – Thor Heyerdahl
All oppression creates a state of war. – Simone de Beauvoir
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. – Leo Tolstoy
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle. – Barry Goldwater
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster. – William Tecumseh Sherman
There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult – to begin a war and to end it. – Alexis de Tocqueville
It is not only the living who are killed in war. – Isaac Asimov
Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. – James Madison
It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it. – Robert E. Lee
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The war… was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides. – Robert E. Lee
A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war. – Samuel Butler
Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total… because it may well involve the whole world. – Jean-Paul Sartre
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war. – Reinhold Niebuhr
The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war. – James Madison
The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt. – Larry Elder
In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out. – William Tecumseh Sherman
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative. – Golda Meir
